We will now ssh into the Pi and install 2 packages, The next step is to put the micro SD card on the Pi zero and wait for a few seconds, for it to boot up. We can do this in 2 ways,įor the first way, it is fairly simple, create a file named wpa_nf in the same folder as the blank “ssh” file and put in the following details, replace the value of your router’s SSID and passwordĬtrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdevįor the 2nd way you will need to setup your pi +mac to enable internet sharing over USB. Next we need to setup internet on our Pi to download the required packages. On the Mac, the sd card will show up as /Volumes/boot, we need to create the “ssh” file in this folder. This is so that we can ssh into our freshly minted Pi zero. We then mount the sd card back(Mac OS does this automatically for us) and create a blank file named “ssh”. img file that we downloaded to the disk sudo dd bs=1m if=filename.img of=/dev/disk2Īfter a few minutes, the image file will have been written to the micro sd card. In my case the device was listed as /dev/disk2 Once done, proceed to unmount the device by typing the following diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 You will get a list of all attached drives and can easily identify the newly inserted card. Open a terminal window and list all the disks by typing the following diskutil list Insert the micro sd card in one of the USB drives using a micro sd card reader.

To start off with we need to burn the latest version of raspbian lite os on a micro sd card. The initial setup instructions are for Mac OS, but they can be easily used in any flavor of linux also. In this article i will explain, how i turned my pi zero into a wifi range extender from scratch. With in built wifi and bluetooth it can easily be turned into an IOT device to control various peripherals. The Raspberry pi zero is an amazing device with outstanding features.

Raspberry pi zero setup wifi